President Kim Hyun-seok of the Consumer Electronics Business at Samsung Electronics delivers a speech at a ceremony to open an AI research center in New York on Sept. 7.

Senior Executive Vice President Daniel Lee, head of Samsung Electronics’ AI research center in New York, speaks at the opening ceremony.(Photos: Samsung Electronics)

Samsung Electronics recently opened an artificial intelligence research center in New York, the sixth such center across the globe, to secure AI technology.

Less than one year has passed since Samsung Electronics inaugurated an AI center in Korea. Samsung Electronics’ AI center in New York brings to six the number of artificial intelligence research centers the Korean electronics giant has opened across the globe following the ones in Silicon Valley, the United States, Cambridge, the UK, Toronto, Canada, and Moscow, Russia.

Among about 100 people on hand at a ceremony to open an AI research center in New York on Sept. 7 were President Kim Hyun-seok of the Consumer Electronics Business, Senior Executive Vice President Cho Seung-hwan of Samsung Research who is in charge of the 22 global R&D Centers of Samsung Electronics, Senior Executive Vice President Sebastian Seung, Senior Executive Vice President Daniel Lee, and Dean Daniel P. Huttenlocher of Cornell Tech.

President Kim said it is important to create new value allowing people to experience comfortable and richer lives by applying artificial intelligence technology to Samsung Electronics’ products and services. The six AI centers, including one in New York, will play pivotal roles, he said.

Daniel Lee, a global authority in the AI robotics sector, Samsung Electronics hired this past June is in charge of the AI research center in New York. World-renowned AI expert Sebastian Seung, Evnin Professor in the Neuroscience Institute and Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, will join the leading AI research as chief scientist.

The artificial intelligence center in New York in which research on robotics is known to be done is drawing keen attention. Unlike Google and Amazon, Samsung Electronics appears to be prudent in the robotics business. Some analyses suggest that if research on AI robotics gains ground, there is a possibility that the company might enter the robotics business.

Daniel Lee, the head of the AI Research Center in New York said his center will work on pilot studies on AI robotics and secure prominent manpower as well as strengthen cooperation with several university and research institutions.

Samsung Electronics plans to ramp up its collaboration with academic circles through the AI research center in New York, a concentration of prominent universities on the East Coast of the United States, and secure gifted manpower.

Participants at a ceremony to open Samsung Electronics’ AI research center in New York include World-renowned AI expert Sebastian Seung, Evnin Professor in the Neuroscience Institute and Department of Computer Science at Princeton University, who will join the leading AI research as chief scientist.